Telegram bots are AI-inspired apps that can serve many functions: send relevant information about the weather or useful news articles, schedule reminders, play tunes, create to-do lists, and so much more. Such bots work in Telegram, a popularinstant messaging application used by millions of people worldwide.

The security of Telegram is tight: users can enable end-to-end encryption and communicate through Secret Chats. This feature is not the only attractive aspect: bots are becoming increasingly popular as the third-party applications to run in the Telegram environment.

Furthermore, thanks to the Telegram bot API, you can easily create bots, promote them or generate them to make your instant messaging more convenient. This course on making a Telegram bot in Python is a perfect place to start learning how to make bots come alive.

What is a Telegram bot?

Bots started to emerge after Telegram announced a new Telegram bot API in 2015. It allows third-parties to create bots that will use this messaging application as their main interface. The Telegram bots list is long: many developers have experimented with the provided API to generate unique bots for various purposes.

In short, Telegram bots are applications set to perform specific functions, follow instructions, and interact with users. Bots run inside the Telegram environment and do not require an additional installation procedure.

By using bots, people can enhance the functionality of Telegram. For instance, you can send daily notifications to your friends, set reminders for yourself, translate messages, receive weather alerts, play games, and so much more. All you need to do is embed a bot into your chat or channel. How can you do this? The procedure is very similar to adding a friend to your conversation and takes only a few seconds.

You can easily find bots by clicking the Telegram Search and typing in a specific name of a bot. Usually, creators of bots introduce their products and how they work.

Security of Telegram bots: they compromise encryption?

While Telegram provides flexibility and high-security measures, including the steel-like encryption, specialists worry whether Telegram bots follow the same pattern. As it turns out, they do not. When you add a bot, it does not use the standard encryption that this instant messaging app follows. Therefore, chats and channels that embed bots become easier to intercept.

Specialists revealed that bots do not follow the standard MTProto protocol, which is the standard for encrypting messages in Telegram. Instead, they use TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol applied in HTTPS web encryption. Therefore, when you add bots into chats, you are unknowingly weakening the encryption of your messages.

Therefore, it might be best to steer clear of Telegram bots if you need to guarantee 100% security in your chats. However, if you still feel like adding a bot to use new functions while messaging, you are free to consider the following options.

Gamee

Gamee is one of the best Telegram bots, letting people play games, challenge their friends, and compare scores. Users can start playing by directly interacting with the bot or by activating it in a chat. Simply type in @gamee or @gamebot and start browsing to find a game to play.

One of the best features is that you will be able to compete with your friends and review high scores. Additionally, owners of Telegram insists that creating games for their instant messaging app is extremely easy and fast. For instance, creating some arcade or puzzle games can take only several hours.

Spotybot

Spotybot is one of the Telegram bots that let you listen to music available in this instant messaging application. You can share songs and lyrics with your friends as well. There are many similar bots that you can choose from, but this bot is one of the most popular music-related applications.

Bots for setting reminders and alerts

Alert bot is a program for setting alerts or notifications to your Telegram account, a specific chat or a group. Users praise it for being a quick and easy solution for setting reminders.

Skeddy bot is an excellent option for setting reminders and keeping your notes organized. You can indicate the purpose of the reminder: for instance, text Ashley in 30 minutes. For forgetful people, this bot can guarantee that they will always be on top of their schedules.

Gif Bot

The Telegram gif bot lets you use the inline method to add gifs to chats. For instance, you can type @gifthis is fine and pick one from the generated selection of gifs. Tap on the gif you want to send, and the gif will immediately appear in the chat.

Yandex.Translate

Yandex.Translate is one of the best Telegram chat bots for translating messages to other languages. If you are chatting with people from different countries and find it challenging to communicate with them, you can ask Yandex.Translate to translate it instead. Of course, the quality might not always be top-notch, but machine translation has greatly improved over the years.

MoviesTracker bot

The MoviesTracker bot is an application for finding information about movies directly from IMDB. All you will need to do is type in the title of the film, and the related content will be presented to you in the Telegram interface.

GitHub bot

The GitHub bot is an application designed for managing notifications from Github directly from the interface of Telegram. You can post comments on issues as well. However, our brief investigation of this bot concluded that it still has many bugs and make unnecessary complications to the way you handle GitHub content. However, it is a decent bot, but new features could improve it significantly.